Checking In

I'm being very productive right now, so I thought I'd continue my streak and update here.


Some discoveries I've made:

I am still good at Twister.  But not as good as Claire.

I can survive being the only manager in the store when things go wrong (Thanks to Meredith for support).

Working in a bookstore is dangerous to my checkbook.  You'd think I'd have figured this out already.

Five-minute rolls from the bakery are an awesome solution to the fast fast food/real food dilemma.

This semester is going to be an incredible amount of work - but so much fun. If I can keep up.

I am Sadistic. No Really.

Copyediting is way too much fun.  BRING IT ON.  I will tear it to shreds.

Mwahahaha!




Ahem.

You didn't see that.

Back to Classes

So now I'm a supervisor and in 3 classes - copyediting, magazine overview, and book editing.  Book reviews are suspended for now because book lending has been suspended at Borders until we finish a rather extensive and thorough inventory check.

Being a supervisor is cool, I guess.  At least I'm not tied in one spot any more - I can walk around and talk to the customers.

My first copyediting class is tomorrow - we'll see how that goes.

Magazine overview is interesting.  Magazines aren't really for me, but I think it will be fun.  I plan on focusing my papers on kids' literary magazines.

Book editing is going to be work - but it's going to be so much fun!  And I'm now receiving the New York Times daily, to be read for class.

Hunger Games

So it's been a while now since I read the book, but I never got around to reviewing it before.

I think The Hunger Games was a pretty good book, and I'd like to read more.  I think it was good as a whole, and also that there is plenty of depth to the construction of the world and characters to pay off in the following books.

There were occasions when I felt the plot avoided difficulties in slightly cop-out ways, but perhaps that is necessary for it to get where it's going and yet still be acceptable as targeted at teens.  I wish I could get more specific, but doing so would involve major spoilers and I did enjoy this book enough not to want to spoil it for anyone.

So, final summary:  it's good, I want to read the others, and I would recommend it, but I'm not in love with it.

Blizzards are pretty.

 ...And home at last.